Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong

Kauders, Anthony

doi:10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615

Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong

Kauders, Anthony

Authors

Anthony Kauders a.d.kauders@keele.ac.uk

Abstract

In January 1847, Branwell Brontë wrote a letter to his friend J. B. Leyland quoting from Lord Byron’s satirical epic Don Juan (1819–24). This was an unusual choice of allusion given that the topic is Byron’s feelings of longsuffering that Branwell usually related to other Byron works such as Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) and Manfred (1817). This essay explores the reasons why the stanzas to which Branwell refers seemed a more appropriate literary touchstone at a point in his life when he was publicly suffering personal and professional embarrassment as he struggled to come to terms with romantic disappointment and his heavy drinking.

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jun 7, 2021
Publication Date	Dec 16, 2021
Journal	Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Publisher	Periodikum des Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	47
Issue	1
Pages	30-46
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615
Publisher URL	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615